Violet's Gorup

-Gatsby's house is a mess because he has no staff
-He fired all his original staff because he didn't want them talking about is affair
- Nick and Gatsby go to Tom Buchanan house
-Tom goes on the phone to his mistress
-Tom leaves the room and Daisy gets up and kisses Gatsby
-Daisy says to Gatsby, 'You always look so cool.' This makes Tom suspicious of them, it's asif this is code for 'I love you.'
-Daisy told Gatsby she loved him and Tom saw
-Tom, Nick and Gatsby go for a walk outside
- Tom is suspicious of Gatsby's history 'Oxford, New Mexico'
- They decide to go to New York, they go to a Plaza hotel
-Myrtle's husband tells Tom they are going to move away, Tom is angry at this
-Gatsby sticks up for Daisy when Tom gets annoyed at her for being too warm
-In the garage Myrtle Wilson stares at Jordan Baker 'wide with jealous terror' as she thinks Jordan is Tom's wife
-Afterwards, when they go to the Hotel Plaza, Tom and Gatsby swap cars.
-Tom keeps talking about Oxford and trying to catch out Gatsby
-Gatsby tell Tom 'I told you I went there'
-Daisy deserves Gatsby and Tom says 'let Mr Nobody from Nowhere to make love to your wife'
-This shows that even though Gatsby is a self-made man he is still getting spoken to as if he is not rich, show inequality in the American Dream
-Daisy knocks Myrtle over and kills her
-Nick left Gatsby at Daisy's house



Katie's Group

- Gatsby fires all his staff because they might gossip about him and Daisy as Daisy comes over a lot
- Gatsby replaces them with Wolfshiem's men
- Gatsby's parties lost their purpose because Gatsby has Daisy now
- Nick, Jordan and Gatsby go to the Buchanan's house and meet Pammy, Daisy's daughter
- Pammy is well diciplined
- Daisy gets up and kisses Gatsby when Tom leaves the room to answer a phonecall
- Really hot day
- Tom figures out about Daisy and Gatsby's affair bacause of the way they look at each other
pg 103 "she had told him she that she loved him and Tom Buchanan saw"
- Daisy suggests going to New York
- Daisy and Gatsby go in Tom's car
- Tom, Jordan and Nick go in Gatsby's car
- They stop for gas at Wilson's garage
- Tom pretends Gatsby's car is his and offers to sell it to Wilson
- Myrtle sees Jordan and thinks she is Daisy
- Tom has researched Gatsby and figures out his real past
- Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick and Jordan go to the Ritz hotel
- Irony of the wedding below in the hotel
- Argument kicks off
pg 113 "your wife doesn't love you" said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me"
- Gatsby realises the old Daisy is different to the new one
- New Daisy is different from the Daisy he's spent years working for, his dream isn't real
- Tom sends Daisy and Gatsby home in Gatsby's car
- There is a paragraph from Michaelis who is neighbor to Mr and Mrs Wilson and tells about accident from his point of view
- Myrtle gets run over by car
- Back to Nick's POV
- Tom, Nick and Jordan are coming back from New York and come across an accident infront of Wilson's garage so they stop to investigate
- They go into the garage and find Myrtle's dead body lying in blankets and Mr Wilson freaking out
- Michaelis describes the car that ran over Myrtle and Mr Wilson recognises it as the car Tom was driving earlier
- Tom insists that it wasn't his car and he hasn't seen it all afternoon
- Tom, Jordan and Nick head back to the Buchanans house and Tom breaks down in tears
- When they get back, Nick finds Gatsby hiding in the bushes
- Find out Gatsby wasn't actually driving the car, Daisy was
- Gatsby says he'll say he was driving to protect Daisy
- Gatsby insists on staying at the Buchanans to make sure Daisy is ok
- Nick goes home


Caitlin's group

  • Gatsby fires all his original servants and gets new ones because he doesn't want people to gossip about him and Daisy's affair
  • Gatsby servants are Woflshiem's men
  • Gatsby asks Nick to come to Daisy's as she asked Gatsby to ask Nick and Jordan would be there (trying to make the affair less obvious)
  • It was the warmest day of Summer
  • Tom see's the way that Daisy and Gatsby looks at each other and works out they are having an affair
  • When Tom leaves the room Daisy goes over to Gatsby and kisses him ' you know I do love you''she murmured'
  • Daisy gets her nanny to bring in her child to show her off to Gatsby
  • Gatsby is surprised at this
  • We don't learn the child's name she's only refer to as 'child' we only learn her name when she leaves as the nanny goes 'Come Pammy'
  • Daisy thinks they should go into town
  • They go in two different cars, Tom, Nick and Jordan go in one and Daisy and Gatsby go in the other
  • Tom, Jordan and Nick stop at Wilson's garage (where Tom's mistress lives) and Myrtel is looking out the window "with eyes wide from jealous terror" She believes Jordan is Tom's wife.
  • They end up going to the Plaza Hotel
  • Tom reveals he done some research on Gatsby
  • He questions Gatsby's background he is forced to reveal the affair of him and Daisy.
  • When the affair is revealed he claims he's going to take 'better care' of her.
  • Tom insists that Daisy goes with Gatsby in his car
  • When Tom, Nick and Jordan stop at Wilson's garage and discover that Myrtel has been killed by a hit and run driver
  • Tom, Nick and Jordan all know that it was Gatsby's car was involved from the description but they don't know who was driving
  • Wilson thinks it was Tom who did it as he was driving it earlier but Tom explains that the car did not belong to him
  • Daisy is already home before Tom, Nick and Jordan arrive
  • Nick doesn't go into the house
  • Nick finds Gatsby in between the bushes
  • We discover Daisy was the one driving Gatsby's car
  • Gatsby tells Nick he is going to the take the blame for Myrtels death
  • Nick goes to look in on Tom and Daisy's house and he see's them sitting at the table and it appears they are conspring together.
  • Nick tries to get Gatsby to come home but he refuses he wants to stay until Daisy goes to sleep

Rowan's Group
  • Tom,Gatsby, Nick, Daisy and Jordan decide to go to New York
  • Before they go to New York they are in Tom and Daisy's house
  • Gatsby meets Tom and Daisy's Daughter
  • Gatsby and Daisy look at each other and Tom realises that there is something going on between them
  • Daisy says to Gatsby "you always look so cool"
  • Daisy and Gatsby go to New York together in Tom's car and Tom takes Jordan and Nick in Gatsby's car
  • Tom stops at Wilson's garage for gas
  • Myrtle was looking out of the window and staring at Jordan as she thought that Jordan was Daisy
  • Gatsby has fired all of his servants
  • Tom is rude to Wilson-makes it worse because he is cheating on Daisy with Wilson's wife
  • Tom suspects Gatsby of something
  • Tom and Gatsby have a big argument and Gatsby tries to make Daisy say that she never loved Tom
  • Daisy doesn't do it as she doesn't want to lie
  • Daisy has betrayed Gatsby
  • Gatsby stays faithful
  • Daisy is staying with Tom
  • After they get back to Tom and Daisy's house Gatsby goes and hides in a bush in their driveway
  • Nick finds Gatsby in the drive while he is waiting for a taxi
  • Gatsby gets Nick to go and spy on Tom and Daisy for him
  • Nick tells him that everything is fine
  • Still Gatsby waits all night just in case
  • Myrtle gets ran over by Daisy
  • Myrtle dies
  • Tom is upset, but Wilson gets even more upset and ends up depressed